Tile.



J6 Inventor JfH. PUGH;

TILE.

APPLICATION FILED mums. 100s.

PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

A ttest $662 Atty.

J. H. PUGH.

TILE.

I APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1906.

-' PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

f v P 7 zafmy PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

J. H.-PUGH.

TILE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1906,

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44 5661 4 lnv entor:

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JOHN H. PUGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TILE

No. ssseso.

Application filed January 23, 1906.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Serial No. 297A15.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. PUGH, a. citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York.lniye invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tiles, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to tiles for floors and the like and its noveltyconsists in the construction and adaptation of the parts, as will bemore fully hereinafter pointed out.

Heretofore in the manlifacture of tiles and especially of tiles made ofrubber, while there has been little difficulty in melting tiles ofpleasing shapes and interchangeable forms with 51, strong horizontalbond, there has been difficulty in melting tiles having a. suitablevertical bond. The result has been that such tiles were secured to thefloor or to each other with cement. In spite of this method, such tilesconstantly worked loose and caused not only unsightly gaps in the floordesign, but also made an open recess which caused persons walking overthe tiled surface to trip or fall.

By means of my invention there is provided a. simple form of tile havinga vertical as well as a. horizontal bond and one which is capable ofarrangement into an infinite number of artistic designs.

'lhe-principle upon which my tiles are. constructed is primarily to makethem of plane surfaces, top and bottom, and with edges or.

butt walls of warped surfaces which, alongeny one edge shell projectoutwardly and re.- cede inwardly from a surface coincident-with theoutline of the base but which is at right angles to both the top andbottom surfaces of the tile. The warped surfaces are formed by sweepinga line along the boundary lines of the top and bottom surfaces of thetile and always in a plane perpendicular to such top and bottomsurfaces. Making such warped surfaces in adjacent tiles exactly thereverse one of the other, a. complete contact and reg istration issecured between them snd'mslc ing one half of any butt wall exactly thereverse of its other half enables the tiles to be used interchangeablywith great ease and economy. The vertical bond between odjecent tiles isefficient and no cement need. be employed in laying them.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of two of my files neareach other, one having a plane edge; Fig. 2 is top plan view of u numberof tiles assembled, each tile having a substantiallytriangular outline;Fig; 3 is a top plan view of two tiles having a substantiallyheinigonzil outline Fig. 4 is a front elevation; Fig. 5 s top plan Viewafid Figs. 6, 7 and S are vertical sections (on the planes of the linesti -6, 7-7 and 8 -8 in Fig. 5) of two contiguous tiles of :L- preferredform;

Figs, i), 10:. ll, 12, 13, 14:, i5, 16 and 17 are top plan views oftiles having upper surfaces of different outlines, but all having theirlower surfaces bounded y straight lines. In l igg's. 18 end 19 these arebounded by curved lines.

in the dresiiin 's, 20 is the upper surface, 30 the lower P t and it; heedge or butt wall of tile embodying my invention.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 1, 4, 6, 7 and it will be observedthat the upper surface 20 and the lower surface 30 of each tile aresnbstsntinlly parallel plane surfaces. ln each case also the boundarylines of the lower surface 31, 33 and 3d are straight lines and theboundary li -es of the upper surfucc 21, 23 and are curved lines, andeach of these curved lines are composed of en inii'urdly curving our (2and on outwerdly curving are l), these urcs being precisely similsr andequal in length. It will also be observed that a plane perpendicular tothe upper and lower surface of the tile and passing through the lines31, 32, 33, and 34 would bisect the lines 21, 23 23 end 24 is )rolon edI L i l e upward. lhe edges or outt walls 40 of each of these tiles aremad "l warped surfaces,

mode by sweeping an iinsnary straight line to a: in constant contactwith the similarly placed boundary lines 31 and Z1; 32 and 22; 33 and 28and 34 and 24 and keeping the line a: :c always in a plane perpendicularto the plane of the upper end lower surfaces, 20 and 30, so that alltransverse. vertical sections of such but-t well are bounded by straightlines as seen in Figs. (3, 7' end 8. it follows then that if the upperand lower boundary lines of two adjacent tiles are identical, then thewarped surfaces of their butt walls are identicsl. jects both outwardand inward from a ver- And if the upper boundary line pro- 7 tionlsurface passing through the lower underline of the one tile, it followsthat warped surfi'rce of the adjacent tile will, on brought into contactwith the similar of its neighbor, underlep and overlap such surface andthus form between the two tiles :1. W1 icnl bond, which, in. all cases,is it line and for the full depth of sequontly s surface composed ofthese tiles inn be worn down to a thin layer without ,i lnlnelring thevertical bond between the esrljaii'cent tiles. ivl()I8OV81, &S the lines.21., :22, 23 and 2% are each identical, and the lines 31, 32, 33 and 34are each identical, it follows thst each tile will engage ide of itsneighbor in i seen also that so long one. s

o e sizes of the adjacent tiles of warped surfaces of identical I, butone the reverse of the other, then such sdjncent tiles will have itperfect vertical hond provided along the junction surface, hocsuse partof it overlaps endpert underlops. Such constructions with suri ii evento tlines are shown. in Figs. 20,ll,1'3,1; l4 and 17, in each of thoboundary lines of the upper surthe tiles are composed of'reversed icallyequal arcs; ond'in Figs. ..1 which such curves are formed c arcs. f V

l8 and 19 the lower and upper boundary lines are both curved, but thebutt walls of adjacent surfaces would overlap end nnderlop just the saine so long, as tho win-pod surface forming the butt wull falls on hothsides of 8. vertical surface passing through the boundary line the lowersurface.

i it will he observed thst the U has one straight edge 40K This ose ofplacing the some age-inst o Wainscot-log.

. obvious thotwide modifications may he made in detail of my inventionwithout departing from its essentisl principles. An infinite Variety ofatte-ms may be made yet each tile may e vertically as well ashorizontally bonded with its neighbor.

Non 3 claim as new is:

A tile barring a. butt well formed of a. war; (l surface which sinclined inwardly nlon pert length and outwardly along 1:0 p of length.

$ L .1. L A we ring a. out Wall iornicd 01 a,

35 continuous war )GL'l surface with alternating overlappingunderlapping faces inclined in opposite directions.

2 A tile having upper end lower surfaces which are substantially pumlleand also huvin; butt wulls formed. ranch lying on hoth sides of a plumewhich is at right angles to the upper and lower sun Fines.

oi warped surl ncos 1 l l l assess l. A tile having upper and lowersurfaces which are substantially parallel and also lmving butt wallsformed of warped surfaces. each lying on both sides ml :1 plane which sat right angles to the upper and lower surfaces and passes through theboundary lines of the lower surface.

5. 13 tile having a butt well formed of n.- continuous warpedsurfaccwith overlapping and underlnpping' faces, one of which has itssurface inclined inwardly and the other inclined outwardly, one edge ofsaid well being curvilinear and the other of dissimilar shape.

6. A tile having edges of one face of engulor conformation and edges ofits othcr face of compound curve conformation and butt walls alternatelyinclined in opposite directions from one toward the other face of thetile.

7. A. tile having upper and l we! surfaces, one bounded by curved andthe other by straight lines, and the side walls of which consist ofwarped surfaces made by sweeping s. strnig'ht lineelong both of saidboundary lines in constant contact therewith.

8. A tile having upper and lower surfaces, one bounded by curved and theother hv straight lines, and the side walls of whic consist of Warpedsurfaces mode by sweeping a. straight line along both-of said bouncerlines in constant contact therewith and whic straight line is at alltimes in aplene perpendicular to the upper and lower surfaces.

9. A tile having an upper end a lower surface one of which is bounded bycom )ound curves and the other of which is boun ed by strai ht lines,said tile also having butt wells which extend. from the straight linesto the compound curves by continuous changes in direction.

10. A tile lmvin llutt walls composed of curved surfaces uno bounded onone face of the tile by straight lines meeting at an angle, said buttwalls at a. corner of the tile being .iorined with faces which areinclined with respect to vertical planes passing through the lines ofthe edges of one face thereof.

ll. A tile having an outer and an inner surface and a butt wall formedwith a. pinrality of bonding elements which are curvilinear and eachprovided with an inclined face, the inclination of one of said facesbeing 1 continuous in one direction oppmxnnate 3 from one to the otherof said surfaces and the inclination -5 the other of sold Feces beingcontinuous in the op v osite direction opproxi mat-sly from one to theother of said surfaces.

12. A tile having a butt wall formed of alternating convex and concaveportions each having its face continuously inclined zi iproximotely fromone to the other surface or the tile, the direction of inclination ofone of said feces being opposite that of the other.

| 13. A bile having a butu well formed of a E In testimony whereof Ia-ffix my signature I warp surfacegnclined lnwardly along part of 1 inpresence of two witnesses. its len bh an outwardly along another part 1Y of its ength in combination Withs second H 5 tilehevingabuttwallformedof awarped sur- '1 Witnesses:

face inclined in exactly the 0 posite direei MAY HUGHES, tion at eachpoint to the Wall 0 the first tile. 1 ALAN MGD NNELL.

